According to the AP, the Chinese government's official news agency, Xinhua, reported approximately nine months before the Beijing Olympics that gymnast He Kexin was 13 ... an age that would have made her ineligible for competition earlier this week (where China won the gold medal in the team event). The report was subsequently pulled from the organization's website.

"It's definitely a mistake," Zhang Hongliang, an official with China's gymnastics delegation at the games, said of the Xinhua report. "Never has any media outlet called me to check the athletes' ages."

The AP article surfaced following massive speculation by international commentators and reporters that some members of the China team were not of legal age.